Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV

[Chas]

Oooo! Spiffy looking. Congrats.

[derex3592]

1 hour ago, Chas said:

Oooo! Spiffy looking. Congrats.

Thanks!

[MechTech]

@electric indigo Miami Blassty! The Crocket and Tubs mecha!😅 There's a flashback!

@Papa Rat @Thom The BEST CA accelerator, gap filler, or for building up areas with CA is plain ole baking soda (like Arm and Hammer). It's non-toxic and gives body to the area you build it up in. MUCH cheaper too!

@derex3592 How did you get stuck with the litter box!?!😁 That's going to be a sweet bench area!

Made some progress on the Dougram kit. The switch for the main gun (two position - up and down) is much smaller than the original switch that came with the "missile switch" assembly. So I had to make a spacer for the hole and a new cover to go over the top.

I've have the guts of an "electronic sparkler" sitting around. Originally I bought it for the fiber optics that came out of it. Now the rest of the guts are going to make the light flash and give it a little pulsating white noise. Better than just a light. Radio Shack (which has so many stores closing down - including the one by me😕) had these cool pink LEDs. More anime realistic and not plain ole white or red.

Looking for a good location to install everything, the gun itself seemed good. So I milled out the vents for detail and the speakers to vent through. I took coffee filter screen and cut some pieces to fit into the slotted areas.

And everything neatly installed.

1. The PC board was shortened and re-soldered with new wire runs.

2. A recycled laptop speaker was used instead of the cheap stock unit (and sounds better).

3. The PC board was glued to the speaker to keep it all a small package.

4. The ABS speaker was glued to the styrene bits by using acetone on the ABS and Tamiya cement on the styrene. Both joints were well soaked and put together. You can weld unlike plastics together - sometimes.

And the whole thing put together.

It looks and sounds pretty cool now! Thanks for checking in! - MT

[Papa Rat]

@MechTech”The BEST CA accelerator, gap filler, or for building up areas with CA is plain ole baking soda (like Arm and Hammer). It's non-toxic and gives body to the area you build it up in. MUCH cheaper too!”

Wow! I will give that a go next time I fill some gaps. Thanks so much for the insider tip. 👍

[SteveTheFish]

I could've sworn I already posted this on here, but I guess not. I'm nearly done with my modified Imai 1:100 Armored VF-1J.  It's altered with custom ball joints, better hands, and aftermarket decals. Actually, the only decal I used from the original decal sheet (which was pretty worn, ugly, and barely usable) is that flame/torch thingy on its waist. Uncannily, several spare decals from the 1:72 Hasegawa kit fit perfectly on this 1:100 kit. the standard UN Spacy roundel I used for the wing on the back came from a sheet of basic Macross decals from China on eBay. Other warning labels and such came from HiQParts generic aftermarket decals. I used the same leftover mixed paints from the 1:72 Hasegawa one, but made this one Millia's red Valk instead. 

Yes, I know that Nichmo made a hypothetical Millia's Armored Valk in 1:200 scale back in the day, but I don't prefer that scheme because I figure that the armor parts would all have the same, uniform paint scheme across all the Valks.